Phoenix Keating’s designs are a little bit out of this world – though rooted in the classic, they’re always fancifully imagining what might be in the future. That gives them a dark edge, a cloud of science-fiction-fantasy that engulfs every piece with the feeling that it’s not quite real. And every time photographer Henryk Lobaczewski interprets Keating’s designs into a campaign he plays to that…

There’s nothing more envy-inducing than a flawless body, toned and tanned, soaking up the sun and seclusion of a pristine Australian beach. Gorgeous up-and-coming model Samie Robinson, who hails from Australia’s Gold Coast, is just the girl to make you long to be in her shoes – or lack thereof, since this shoot by Henryk Lobaczewski is all about getting toes in the sand and…

When things look perfect on the surface, odds are they’re not. But humankind is all for keeping up appearances, and that was even more the case in the days before we became accustomed to public breakdowns and sharing our woes with everyone and no-one via Facebook status updates. Think of the 1950s and we think of bright smiles and happy nuclear families, housewives in aprons…

The great shame in owning an iPhone is that it’s beautifully designed… and yet you have to hide its beauty beneath some protective casing or risk destroying it all together. Hence the emergence of a new need in the marketplace – a need for beautiful iPhone cases. The Dairy are an Australian company that produce graphical, fully protective phone cases – i.e they aren’t stickers.…

Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown! Whether its the Chinatown of 1930s LA, where Jack Nicholson’s fictional private detective found repeated misfortune, or the old Chinatown slums of East London, the very name can have implications of something a little dark and gritty. A place that has its own laws, something shadowy beneath the surface, an allure of the forbidden and unknown. New York’s Chinatown, the…

Androdameia, the Amazon warrior, the ‘Subduer of Men’. You can see the fit between Phoenix Keating‘s latest campaign and the title of the collection it showcases: Androdameia. Like the Amazonian woman of Greek Mythology, Keating’s woman is fearless, uncompromising, relentless and elevated not by just status but by a power that comes from within. In the collection gold trimmings reminisce on military brocade, except hand-painted…

It could be the glow of a secluded holiday spot on the Mediterranean; there’s little to give away the Southern Sydney beach location of Henryk Lobaczewski’s (henrykphoto.com) visually intoxicating photoshoot. Lobaczewski wanted to strip back the styling on the series to keep the shoot honed in on the sensual mood. Stylist Lydia-Jane Saunders (lydiajanesaunders.com) did the job brilliantly, selecting pieces with visual as well as…

Phoenix Keating’s latest collection takes the name DE-SEX, but it’s not to be mistaken with the kind of de-sexing that takes place at a veterinary clinic. No, rather it’s about “the de-sexualisation of fetish.” The fetish elements in question are the likes of latex and rope binding but, as Keating says, “I’m taking something that would otherwise seem overtly sexual and trying to transform it…

Fashion loves its contrasts, and it’s safe to say that toughness and femininity have one of the most passionate – if tumultuous – relationships. When they get on, they get on like a house on fire. Those two qualities – toughness and femininity – come together in Henryk Lobaczewski‘s latest shoot. Photographed in New York, it’s what characters of West Side Story might look like…

There was a period a few years ago where all things sapphic seemed to consume. It’s hard to say what drove it, but if I had to wager I’d say it was driven by the vocal young as opposed to the money-spinning media, with plenty a girl willing to comment how they’d turn for a particular model in much the same way that a desire…